Keith Ellison

Keith Ellison reads to me as the rare politician whose career makes sense as a straight line. A Detroit upbringing, a Wayne State degree, legal training at the University of Minnesota, years as a working lawyer, twelve years representing Minneapolis in Congress, and then the deliberate move to become Minnesota's attorney general in 2019. Choosing a state law-enforcement post over the national spotlight tells you where he believes power actually gets exercised. I find that instinct genuinely interesting: he seems to prefer the venue where legal craft matters more than rhetoric. Whatever your politics, that is a career built on doing the work rather than chasing the camera.

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Name (English)

Keith Ellison

Name (Japanese)

ケイス・エリソン

Reading

けいす・えりそん

Born

August 4, 1963 (age 63)

Origin

Detroit, Michigan, United States

Occupation

politician / lawyer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rabbit

High school

University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy

University

Wayne State University

• Official sitehttp://ellison.house.gov
• Xhttps://x.com/KeithEllison
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith%20Ellison
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40589

Tags

• Michigan
• politician
• lawyer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.